Francesco Turci

Lecturer, School of Physics, University of Bristol.

[Current Biology @CurrentBiology]

Our latest issue just dropped. And it's special!

A high-density assortment of essays primer and reviews on #physics in #biology!

Check it out!

https://t.co/hfYXO5VJQW

[Ricard Alert Zenón @RicardAlert]

New preprint! We introduce active screws: a new class of active particles that propel by spinning on a substrate. There are several examples: from from gliding microtubules to soil bacteria, and even magnetically-driven colloidal helices.
https://t.co/qNJMvF7W4f

[Luca Tubiana @[email protected] @LucaTubiana]

Very happy to be invited by Physics Report to give a Cassyni webinar on our recent review!

An introduction to Topology in soft and biological matter presented by @LucaTubiana & others
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📅 Friday 25th Oct 2024
⏰ 14.00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam)
https://t.co/5S4TnsM52d

[Xuhui Huang @XuhuiHuangChem]

Our preprint on MEMnets is out! Its key innovation lies in optimizing CVs of biomolecular dynamics by minimizing time-integrated memory kernels via parallel encoder neural networks. It is effective at identifying meaningful slow CVs and robust in training! https://t.co/ZXTcuKeqP9

[Gershon Baskin🟣 غرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין @gershonbaskin]

I started negotiating with Hamas a week after the abduction of Gilad Schalit in June 2006. Two and a half months later, after two visits to Hamas in Gaza, I was able to produce a letter in Schalit's handwriting - a sign of life and proof that there is a channel that leads to those holding him. Then our "system" told me to cease. I stayed in touch with Hamas over years. In July 2010, I received a request from Ahmed Jabari that Hamas was ready to resume the talks according to the German proposal. I sent it over to the people in charge in Israel, and it didn't interest them at all - they kept saying: We are waiting for an answer from Hamas. When David Meidan was appointed the hostage coordinator, I approached him and he decided to activate me, and thus the secret direct back channel was created. At that time, Netanyahu approved the channel without knowing that I was running it. In the middle of July 2011, I achieved the breakthrough that led to the release of Gilad Schalit. In May of this year, I managed to convince our system to activate me again, I started sending messages and receiving answers officially and directly, but after two weeks the system informed me to "stop". In my estimation, Netanyahu found out that I was operating a direct and secret channel that was very active and did not want such a channel. About two weeks ago, the hostage families' forum asked me to try to conduct a direct negotiation with Hamas on their behalf. That's what I did, and within two weeks I obtained agreement to a three-week deal - the release of all 107 Israeli hostages, the end of the war, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and an agreed release of the names and number of Palestinian prisoners. The entire Hamas leadership agrees to this outline, but our Netanyahu does not want to end the war. This is the situation today - Saturday, August 31, 2024

[Nino Cartabellotta @Cartabellotta]

In un Paese (Italia) dove la cultura è un optional e la meritocrazia non ha valore, risuonano le parole del Medico di un piccolo paese (Alia).

Buon compleanno papà e grazie per il tuo insegnamento che oggi non ha solo un valore familiare, ma anche sociale ❤️
#30Agosto

[Paul Salopek @PaulSalopek]

Our friend, the soulful photographer Murat Yazar, remains missing in the Kurdish region of Iraq. We are worried, and hope the #Iraqi, #Turkish, & #Kurdish Regional Government can help find him.

Murat once walked 1200 km across Turkey with @outofedenwalk https://t.co/Qf8cvb123R

[Pragya Arora @pragyaarora26]

Excited to share our paper in Nature Communications! We developed a system of deformable active cell mimics & observed a reentrant #jamming transition mediated by cell shape changes.
#active #glassy #cellshape #research #confluent @Rajesh_JNCASR
@AjaySoodIISC @sarojnandi1983

[Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum]

It was supposed to take 10,000 years to simulate Google's 2019 quantum supremacy experiment.

These guys did it in 86.4 seconds (which is 7x faster than Google's 53 qubit Sycamore chip) and consumed only 13.7 kWh of electricity (just 3x as much).
https://t.co/3W8ZJ67TDU

[Davide Michieletto @Dmichiel1]

💦 Topological water!?!?🪢
💦🪢💦🪢💦🪢💦🪢💦🪢

Never imagined contributing to the research on water..

Always watched it from afar.. wondering what it was all about.

But water is cool, and linked!
https://t.co/byfuu5CQuh

🙌 to @gtzyair
🫶 to @fausto_martelli

[Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum]

Quantum CEO explains how his startup intends to scale from 5 qubits to 5 million qubits.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

https://t.co/yoT0fC3j3P

[Datta Lab @TheSquishyLab]

Excited to release our latest work, led by @ChristophLohrm1 along with Christian Holm @ICP_Stuttgart: https://t.co/eKnQk70Kjg!  

Here, we build on classic work by Berg & Purcell to study how bacterial swimming influences infection by phages—and find some surprises...🦠🏊🏾 [1/7]

[limmerlab @limmerlab]

Students of chemical physics, soft matter, biophysics, or anyone interested in understanding the visible world through a lens of its molecular constituents should check out Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Thermodynamics, available for preorder https://t.co/Y761hftU3K

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

This essay is charming and insightful, but it doesn't give any hint about how to *make* discoveries. For that, I would recommend this free PDF of a book by Professor Jack Oliver, one of the discoverers of plate tectonics. https://t.co/2pDYbJXfS8

[Francesco Turci @Francesco_Turci]

@JohnStreicher1 @JayTurberville Randomness is underrated.

[Ramin Golestanian @RGolestanian]

This works makes a strong link between the fields of active matter and stochastic thermodynamics by presenting a precise calculation for entropy production and proposing a new strategy to infer the internal chemical energy landscape.

[Yair Shokef @YShokef]

new metamaterial, new paper, new video https://t.co/tl7IJgrq7S geometric frustration, inspired by artificial spin ice gives fully tractable history dependent responses @TelAvivUni @LosAlamosNatLab @chaviva_ @CRSTNNSL @ComplexLab_TAU

[Jan Kosinski @jankosinski]

Can AlphaFold model large RNA structures? I attempted to model the structure of an intron that was released today: https://t.co/wA4fWtOtZK

[Francesco Turci @Francesco_Turci]

@GranularLab Very interesting! I will read through the details, but do you have any idea on the approximate unit cost and the autonomy (duration of the batteries at typical speeds)? They look like interesting robots to study active matter with.